Editing new comments when including a previous post.

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I have been finding it increasingly frustrating to edit my new text when I am including a previous post.

Steps:
Click "Reply with Quote" on any given post.
In the new edit window, at the end of the quote, start typing.
Press the backspace key.
The following characters appear above the line one has already typed.

This is exceedingly frustrating. I often have typed quite a bit before I notice that my typing is no longer following what I had first typed.

The way I have dealt with this is to delete or cut the most recent typing, staying on the line above the original text, I delete the carriage return so the cursor is now on the same line as the original text. Then I hit carriage return again and move the cursor to the end of that first line and continue typing.

I have been finding it increasingly frustrating to edit my new text when I am including a previous post.

Steps:
Click "Reply with Quote" on any given post.
In the new edit window, at the end of the quote, start typing.
Press the backspace key.
The following characters appear above the line one has already typed.

This is exceedingly frustrating. I often have typed quite a bit before I notice that my typing is no longer following what I had first typed.

The way I have dealt with this is to delete or cut the most recent typing, staying on the line above the original text, I delete the carriage return so the cursor is now on the same line as the original text. Then I hit carriage return again and move the cursor to the end of that first line and continue typing.

Idiot in Chief

The software we use for the forums (vBulletin) is a commercially sourced program which albeit allows for a certain amount of user customization, as far as I am aware does not allow access to the primary source coding.

vBulletin does come out with updates from time to time to fix these sorts of bugs but were more or less at their mercy.

Have you tried a different browser? Sometimes bugs like that are particular to a specific browser.

I know that I've had the same issue occasionally with Firefox but it seems to be sporadic.

Senior Member

I have been finding it increasingly frustrating to edit my new text when I am including a previous post.

Steps:
Click "Reply with Quote" on any given post.
In the new edit window, at the end of the quote, start typing.
Press the backspace key.
The following characters appear above the line one has already typed.

This is exceedingly frustrating. I often have typed quite a bit before I notice that my typing is no longer following what I had first typed.

The way I have dealt with this is to delete or cut the most recent typing, staying on the line above the original text, I delete the carriage return so the cursor is now on the same line as the original text. Then I hit carriage return again and move the cursor to the end of that first line and continue typing.

Senior Member

seems to me that the cursor jumps to last bit of formatting when you backspace. but not always. i haven't sorted out when it doesn't happen vs. when it does, but for example if i italicize something and the cursor jumps it jumps back to the close of the italicizing ((which i typically do using a keyboard command alt-i instead of using the buttons in the reply GUI)). jumping to formatting happens to me more often than into a quote, though that does happen too; i reckon i do more text formatting than Ernest does.

you might try using the GUI instead of keyboard commands -- but as OnceFallen said, it's likely a Vbulletin bug, not a forum one.

Called of God

I usually skip a line like tourist does, but you have to check the screen often. The first time you use backspace in chrome it operates like the home key and puts you at the front of the line. Subsequent backspaces seem to work okay.